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April 2015

23 April
The city of Montreal, Montreal Mayor M. Denis Coderre, MIGS and the Armenian Community of Montreal held a special event to commemorate the 100Th anniversary of Armenian Genocide. The event took place at City Hall.

23 April 2015
MIGS launched the Youth Ambassadors Against Digital Extremism network. #No2DigitalExtremism https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/global-youth-ambassadors-against-digital-extremism/x/9753280

“The dangerous myth of the female victim-fighter” Marie Lamensch, opencanada.org

April 21, 2015
http://opencanada.org/features/the-dangerous-myth-of-the-female-victim-fighter/

MIGS and the Canadian International Council launched an in-depth series titled “ISIS: Myth and Realities”.
http://opencanada.org/indepth/understanding-isis-myths-and-realities/

MIGS Director Frank Chalk presented a paper and chaired a panel at the Armenian Government's Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide, Yerevan, 22-23 April 2015.

 “Video: Canada to bomb ISIL in Syria” with Kyle Matthews, Al Jazeera's "The Stream", April 7, 2015
http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201410301550-0024303

Kyle Matthew was Concordia’s newsmaker of the week
http://www.concordia.ca/content/shared/en/news/main/items/2015/04/07/KyleMatthews.html

Roméo Dallaire received the Calgary Peace Prize for his work with the Child Soldiers Initiative. He was interview by Global News Calgary
http://globalnews.ca/video/1929456/romeo-dallaire-to-receive-the-calgary-peace-prize

“Trudeau and Mulcair can’t ignore ISIS’s crimes” Kyle Matthews, National Post, April 4, 2015
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/kyle-matthews-trudeau-and-mulcair-cant-ignore-isiss-crimes

Audio: “Is Canada's fight against ISIS a moral war?” with Kyle Matthews, CBC's "Day 6", April 3, 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-227-canada-s-moral-obligation-to-fight-isis-tidal-akelius-and-abortional-reversal-1.3019698/is-canada-s-fight-against-isis-a-moral-war-1.3019709

“Opinion: Canadian leadership is needed to end Syria’s suffering” Kyle Matthews and Zach Paikin, Montreal Gazette
http://montrealgazette.com/news/world/opinion-canadian-leadership-is-needed-to-end-syrias-suffering

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